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Editor’s pick: The keys to fatherhood are researched at last (1)

From
Beverley Walsh, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK

Anna Machin’s research on the effect of pregnancy on fathers is welcome (24 March, p 37). The West lets down fathers in more ways than one, and I think changing this is key to changing other inequalities. Current pay inequality is a reflection of societies’ stereotyping of women as the predominant childcarer.

If we can change our view of parenting to be a partnership, having equal impact on both parents, perhaps employers won’t just look at a woman in her 20s and think she is probably going to have kids in the next few years, but also look at …